Sound Listening.
Listening with and to the community
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Sound Listening is an interactive, multimedia community-created resource that engages with and documents Seattle’s sustainability priorities.
Every three months, a new Sound Listening theme is activated through a community-informed process. The theme guides discussion prompts on social media, meet-up themes, and think tank topics, connecting community together in a deep sustainability conversation.
Resources gathered during each theme are archived on the Resources Page.
At the end of each quarter, S2 sums up each theme with:
Sustainable Thoughts, a personal synthesis of the quarter’s key themes, concepts, and priorities told through the perspective of a compassionate analyst or community member.
In Sight, which artfully interprets each Sound Listening theme through analysis and personal experience. In Sight expands on sustainability topics in ways that extend beyond spoken language, engaging different ways of knowing and processing information.
In Sight prints are available on the Community Market and benefit artists and S2 community programs.
Q1 2020. Culture is shaped by the environment, and our culture shapes our environment. A look into cultures of the PNW.
Q2 2020. Examining how data serves community, how community informs data, and the accessibility of this data in its legibility and usability by communities.
Q3 2020. Alignment, coalition building, and collaboration are essential to movements – but what keeps us divided? How do we engage with and understand these forces? What might we perceive as divisive, that simply needs reframing?
Q4 2020. An exploration of the ways decisions are made at a community level, and our relationships with systems of governance.
Q1 2021. The guiding principles, morals, and values that inform our decision-making.